Insecticide.



UNITED STATES Patented May 26, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

INSECTICIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,264, dated May 26, 1903.

Application filed February 19, 1903. Serial No. 144,142. (No specimens.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE A. BOURLON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Oaney, in the county of Montgomery and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Insecticides, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates toa new and improved spraying solution to be used as an insecticide especially for the destruction of insects upon cotton-plants and other similar vegetable growths.

The solution consists of a combination of the following mixtures in the .proportions stated: one pound of oil of chenopodium and three quarts of alcohol; one pound of oil of stramoniumdeaves and three quarts of alco- 1101; one pound of oil of stramonium-seeds and three quarts of alcohol; forty gallons of magnolia-bark tea.

The spray isprepared by mixing the oil of chenopodium, stramonium-leaves, and stramonium-seeds with the alcohol in the propor-. tions stated and then combining said ,mixtures. This is infused with forty gallons of magnolia-bark tea, which is made by boiling for a period of two hours, under cover, a mixture of green magnolia-bark, either from the roots or the trunk of a tree, in the proportions of one pound of bark to one gallon of seed.

I claim 7,

1. The herein-described composition of matter, consisting of oil of chenopodium, oil of stramonium, alcohol, water, and extract of magnolia-bark.

2. The herein-described insecticide, consisting of one pound of oil of chenopodinm, one pound of oil of stramonium-leaves, one pound of oil of stramonium-seeds, nine quarts of alcohol, and forty gallons of water and magnolia extract, mixed.

, EUGENE A. BoUELoN.

Attest:

J. T. RUoKs, J. W. LEwIs. 

